While I think that Immortelle’s reaction is odd, I still have him hold my waist.
“(Hn~ There’s nothing here, huh…? Besides…)
Immortelle… There’s no need to hug me that tight, you know?”
He’s hugging me so tight that I want to yell ‘So this is Immortelle!’.
It doesn’t hurt, but despite it’s enough to simply hold my waist, Immortelle embraces me fully to his arms until I can feel his cheeks against my back.
“No! I must not let anything happen to Tolu-sama!” Immortelle says, but he is more fired up* than me who is supposed to search around the pool. From time to time, I can hear sniffing sound as if I’m the one being snuffed around.
I get a little disgusted and say, “I’m done here,” while sitting in the depths of the pool. When I look at Immortelle, he’s been wearing an undisguised disappointed look.
“(Seriously, though, why!?)”
After that, I walk with Immortelle down the courtyard, then return to my room.
“(There’s really no clue at all, huh…? Well, I can’t think of anything about my 5-year old self… but I really want to know why I got reincarnated in this world… Because, being reincarnated means that I died in Japan, right? I have absolutely nothing that I can recall about that moment, so that’s also something mysterious… Even though I still can remember the talk I had with my sister when I was still alive, I couldn’t remember my time of death at all, and that’s…. I wonder if I deliberately sealed my own memories… No, no, somehow that’s too close to stories in manga… Well, for the time being, it’s already a cemented fact that I’ve come to this world… I just have to work hard to avoid that destruction end as much as possible…),” I think by myself.
I casually wrote down the things that happened today in a diary.
“(I should write down as much as possible about the game that I remember!“)
Time passes after that, and my scheduled time with Blue Mary arrives. I hurriedly go to Blue Mary’s room.
“Neesama, it’s Tolu. Can I open the door, please?”
“Ye~s.”
When I open the door, there’s a man in his thirties with Blue Mary, who is sitting on a chair.
“(I wonder who this guy is… She’s been studying until now, so could it be her history teacher?)” I’m looking at the man, when our eyes meet with a spark.
In that second, the man smiles gently. “Nice to meet you. You are Tolu-sama, if I’m not mistaken? I am Blue Mary-sama’s history teacher. My name is Carrot. It’s nice to be acquainted with you,” he introduces himself.
I’m flustered and reply, “Ah… Nice to meet you. I’m Tolu Balsam. I’m happy to be acquainted with you.”
“Tolu-sama, soon you’ll grow up and receive my history lessons, if I’m not mistaken. Being able to teach such a couple of children… I’ve never been this happy in my life,” he says, beaming with happiness.
While I feel at loss on the reply, Blue Mary has jumped up in a boing and take my hand. “Tolu! Play with me!”
“Er… Yes, anesama.”
I bow my head to Carrot-sensei and leave the room with Blue Mary. She just pulls my hand like that and suggest an active game, “What should we play first? Hide and seek? A game of tag?”
Inside the otome game, Blue Mary is already in the position of the noble villainess girl, so it’s the first time I see this kind of Blue Mary, obviously.
“Then, hide and seek?” I pick one and she replies with an affirmation of, “Sounds great!”
Even for me, it’s great because now I have a reason to look around as much as I wish in this large estate. We decide that I’ll be the one who become the seeking oni first, while she’s the one hiding from me.
“Then after you count to 10 for the fifth time, start looking for me!” after saying that, Blue Mary runs off somewhere.
“(She’s still five year old, so… oh well.).” I obey Blue Mary’s rules and starts to count to 50. As soon as I finish counting, I start examining from the door in front of me.
I obviously knew that Blue Mary isn’t hiding here, but in the rarest chance that there’s someone inside, I can tell them that “I’m playing hide and seek,” and most of them will allow it.
I rattle the door before me, figuring out if I’m able to open it or not.
However, there’s only a few of rooms whose doors I can open in comparison, and there are many rooms functioning like storage rooms among them.
“(I wonder if I can find something interesting~)” I keep opening the doors with that kind of thought. Meanwhile, there’s a room where I can hear a sound of lively laughter from the corridor even before I open the door.
I quietly push it open, and there are several women who seem to be on a break. From their attire, I can safely assume that they’re servants. When I listen in and focus on their conversation, I find out some astonishing things.
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